I'd like to hear a variety of ways people insert macrons into their Latin writing. The best I can do so far is to copy a macronized (if that is a word) letter from another place and paste it into my text. Anybody know an easier way, more efficient way?

I kept getting an "Incomplete" install after I downloaded the program and tried, several times, to install it. I think my internet firewall bombed it out, even though I kept telling it to let the program through. I'll try it again later when I have more time.

In the meanwhile, someone pointed me to the following url which showed a good, if a bit cumbersome, way to get macrons as well as many, many other accent symbols over the letters of the alphabet:

The ALT codes don't work for me -- all the normal ones do, 0255 and smaller, so I can get acute accent and umlauts and things, but the macrons don't work. Does anyone have an idea why this isn't working for me? I've searched online and found nothing, except that, seeing as I have Vista, it should work.

modus.irrealis wrote:The ALT codes don't work for me -- all the normal ones do, 0255 and smaller, so I can get acute accent and umlauts and things, but the macrons don't work. Does anyone have an idea why this isn't working for me? I've searched online and found nothing, except that, seeing as I have Vista, it should work.

>255 codes don't work for me either (using Windows Vista Home Premium) when I try them with Notepad or IE/Textkit, but they do work with Wordpad.

I, Lex Llama, super genius, will one day rule this planet! And then you'll rue the day you messed with me, you damned dirty apes!

I keep a text file in my Greek folder that contains a key for the Greek polytonic keyboard keystrokes, some of which are so arcane I never seem to remember them. I also have characters in there that have no Greek polytonic keyboard equivalent, such as alpha+acute+macron for Homeric plural genitive case (only works with the New Athena Unicode font). I cut/pasted them from Character Map to the file. Then I cut/paste them from that file to my Pharr exercise files. It makes things a little easier.

I, Lex Llama, super genius, will one day rule this planet! And then you'll rue the day you messed with me, you damned dirty apes!

I kept getting an "Incomplete" install after I downloaded the program and tried, several times, to install it. I think my internet firewall bombed it out, even though I kept telling it to let the program through. I'll try it again later when I have more time.

In the meanwhile, someone pointed me to the following url which showed a good, if a bit cumbersome, way to get macrons as well as many, many other accent symbols over the letters of the alphabet: